17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
03:47
Hi all.
By sheer accident I noticed that an initial substring (of 7 characters
or longer) of my root password will return a match when I su to root.
I have become a little lax about policing my system, which is just a
home workstation, however, I am wondering if this is a known problem or if
it is likely that I have been compromised. Frankly, I am soon to
reinstall, and there is not exactly anything super-secret on my hard
drive, so I am not too worried... but anyhow. BTW, I changed the root
password and again, an initial substring (this time of 8 or more
characters) returns a match.
TIA
Corvin
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Corvin Russell